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PRESS RELEASE: October 16, 2006
Contact: Teresa Mitchell, Seaway Trail, Inc., 315-646-1000

SEAWAY TRAIL HALLOWEEN HAUNTS:
Visit Famous Americans' Gravesites on New York's America's Byway

Looking for an unusual Halloween experience this year? How about visiting a fascinating collection of gravesites for the famous and infamous along New York's freshwater Seaway Trail? You can pay your respects to everyone from Civil War surgeon and medal of honor winner Dr. Mary Edwards Walker to Dr. John Jakway who is said to have requested to be buried with the top of his head sticking out of the ground so passersby could crack nuts on his head.

The 518-mile byway is also the resting place of a Civil War horse known as Billy Sherman. Billy was part of Sherman's March to the Sea. He died in 1887 at age 32 and is buried in Niagara County. Lucky for Billy, Amos Sottle did not get a hold of him. Sottle, who is buried in Irving, NY, in Chautauqua County, made fiddles with horses' skulls and leg bones.

The first person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls, the founder of the U.S. Weather Service and a Georgia Governor are all buried along the 518- mile-long Seaway Trail that spans the freshwater shorelines of New York and Pennsylvania and is one of America's Byways.

Some cemeteries are notable in themselves. The recently-built-for-the-first-time Blue Sky Mausoleum in Buffalo's Forest Lawn Cemetery was designed by noted American architect Frank Lloyd Wright and is part of a Renaissance of several Wright architectural masterpieces in the Buffalo area. At the Mount Albion Cemetery, the tomb of businessmen David and Claudius Jones bears the inscription: “Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.”

To learn which famous suffragette, Underground Railroad heroine, Native American, former slave who became a noted publisher, and U.S. President are buried, go to the Road Trips page at www.seawaytrail.com, scroll down the Journey Archives list to History and click on Gone But Not Forgotten.

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